M 4.5 in Afghanistan on 24 Apr 2022 09:34 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1319933
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.631 , 67.5266
Event Date: 24 Apr 2022 09:34 UTC
24 Apr 2022 14:04 Local
Exposed Population:
2.7 million in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Apr 2022 10:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Tajikistan= 5.1; Uzbekistan= 4.1

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us6000hg12 Scaled population (vector) 6.44  
  C1 earthquake 1.5  
  C2 earthquake 0.07  
  Country Vulnerability 0.45  
  INFORM_normalised 1.29  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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World News | 4.2 Magnitude Quake Hits Afghanistan's Fayzabad on Friday 4/15/2022 6:48:00 AM.

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4.2 magnitude quake hits Afghanistan's Fayzabad on Friday 4/15/2022 6:22:00 AM.

ANI | Updated: Apr 15, 2022 09:49 IST. Kabul [Afghanistan], April 15 (ANI): An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Ritcher Scale hit Afghanistan's Fayzabad on Friday morning, as per the (NCS). "Earthquake of Magnitude:4.2, Occur
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),